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Upgrading Wireless CardĪsus N550JV comes with generic slow wireless card. I did go for a SquareTrade 3-Year Computer Accident Protection Plan, but then its a personal call. This video is not exactly for Asus N550JV model, but describes it perfectly. Either ways the ram sticks included will be wasted. You need to decide to go for 1x8GB+1x4GB or 2x8GB RAM. Since the laptop has 2 slots and has 2 x 4GB RAM sticks. Unless you are into heavy gaming or modelling design, 8GB is more than enough. Hence you need to move your windows from included regular HDD to newly installed SSD. Out of the many guides available on internet, I’ve tried and tested the following. Unless you have a fresh Windows license, you do not want to loose OEM version of windows. In case you want to replace existing HDD with SSDĬlone factory installed Windows 8 to a new empty SSD This video tutorial by HDD Caddy is all you need. If you are a heavy gamer, go ahead with Samsung 840 EVO or even 840 Pro version. I bought Crucial M500 240GB SSD over Samsung 840 EVO 240GB SSD as being cheap, and their read speeds are comparable with slight difference in write speed.

USB DVD 9.5mm enclosure to use the internal optical drive as external.

SSD (ofcourse), recommended 240GB minimum.

9.5mm HDD Caddy to replace optical drive with SSD.

#How to install a dvd drive in an asus x551m laptop driver#

Torx T5 screw driver to open the laptop.

Upgrading SSD replacing DVD / optical drive bay with HDD Caddy

#How to install a dvd drive in an asus x551m laptop manual#

You can download the N550JV manual for detailed info. So far (week’s usage) laptop is giving me 4+ hrs of battery life on 40% brightness and web browsing / slides. Now despite the laptops amazing performance, I highly recommend the following upgrades SSD and extra RAM.

N550JV-DB71 (non-touchscreen) will save you an additional $75-100.Also 2 graphics cards = extra heating & less battery life.While Ideapad has 2 x GeForce card using SLI technology, other second graphic card is in place optical drive, so taking it out makes no sense.Only option is to replace Optical drive with SSD. Both do not have full SSD storage and i really need one.I chose to buy Asus over Lenovo for following reasons. Nearest competitor was Lenovo Ideapad Y510P.

#How to install a dvd drive in an asus x551m laptop upgrade#

Sub $1000 range (SSD upgrade + 3 years ADP excluded)Īsus N550JV-DB72T vs Lenovo Ideapad Y510P.

NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 750M with 2GB/4GB DDR3 VRAM.

4th generation 2.4 GHz Intel Core i7-4700HQ Haswell (Turbo 3.4GHz).

Reasons for buying Asus N550JV-DB72T (touchscreen) or Asus N550JV-DB71 (non-touchscreen) model.